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Every week, we’ll be looking at 1 or two records from The Wire’s “100 Records That Set the World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)” list, originally published in the The Wire 175 (September 1998). You can find the … Continue reading 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)
We have had a bit of an upset. Apparently, you love your Greek Lesbian Poets more than your Muppets, because Sapphos took Doc Hopper’s recipe for fried frog legs to use on Kermit by just 3 votes. In fact Sappho … Continue reading Favorite Mononymous Famous Person – The Finals
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your shuffles! Today we have an explosive batch of songs lined up for you all… because our special word of the day is … Continue reading The Weekly Shuffle Thread is the BOMB!
Composer Will Bates probably isn’t a household name, but his music has most likely been in your house at one time or another. With 71 credits over the last 12 years, Bates has done music for multiple television programs and … Continue reading Review: Far Cry 6 – Vaas: Insanity (Original Game Soundtrack)
Hello! It’s Friday! Here’s some new music. Have fun, go post in the pits — 2KBABY – First Quarter — Aeon Station (Kevin Whelan of The Wrens) – Observatory — Agarthic – The Inner Side — Alpha Bootis – Science … Continue reading Friday New Music 12/10
Round 2 is in the books, and we’re already down to just 16 competitors for the title of the Avocado’s Favorite Holiday Album. Click below for the full list of eliminated albums. [spoiler title=”We’ll Have a Blue Christmas Without…”] The … Continue reading Favorite Holiday Album Tournament–Sweet 16
We rank the best music of the year. All other music websites’ lists are inferior. Continue reading The Pits: Best in Music 2021
Let’s discuss any and all music here. Got a new artist who’s rocking your boat that you want to talk about? Post a video! Found out about that unearthed Coltrane album that has the jazz freak in you losing your … Continue reading The Weekly Music Thread Has a Fantasy
Fourth Place: Missy Elliott Third Place: Wu-Tang Clan Second Place: Beastie Boys First Place: OutKast Big thanks to everyone who took part. Let’s do this again sometime. Continue reading 1990’s Hip-Hop/Rap Tournament: Results
Welcome to the Avocado Music Club, each week a new album will be discussed based on a massive pile of suggestions made by ourselves. Listen to new music or revisit an old favorite and discuss anything you wish related to … Continue reading Avocado Music Club #135: Baths – Obsidian
Owned since: 2011 Genre: Industrial Metal Where I bought it: Roadburn Festival Tilburg Year: 1988 (remastered 2008) Label/pressing: Kreation Records Normally, around April in a city near me a thing called the Tilburg Roadburn Festival happens. Among the biggest alternative … Continue reading Crate Skimmers #19 Godflesh-Godflesh
We’re moving on to the second round of voting, but many enjoyable holiday records have been eliminated. Click below for the full list of eliminated albums. [spoiler title=”Pour One Out For…”] Wintersong (Sarah McLachlan); Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas … Continue reading Favorite Holiday Album Tournament–Round of 32
Fittingly for a tournament that was almost entirely chalk for the first few rounds before going absolutely bugshit in the Round of 8, our Final Four kept the weirdness going with the loss of heavy tournament favorite Wu-Tang Clan. Outkast … Continue reading 1990’s Hip-Hop/Rap Tournament: The Finals
Nope, no close calls here. Unlike Cher and Sade Battle Royale, these were all pretty much blowouts, and Cher this time couldn’t turn back time. She was almost halved by Bjork, 29 – 16. Kermit did the same thing to … Continue reading Favorite Mononymous Famous Person – The Final Four
Every week, we’ll be looking at 1 or two records from The Wire’s “100 Records That Set the World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)” list, originally published in the The Wire 175 (September 1998). You can find the … Continue reading 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)
Well, this is what I get for pointing out this tournament’s almost total lack of upsets: three of our top four seeds went down this round, making for a pretty eclectic final four. Even so, this header belongs to an … Continue reading 1990’s Hip-Hop/Rap Tournament: The Final Four
The idea for the discussion is simple, once a week a volunteer (or volunteers) will do a write up on an older piece of media that they are digesting for the very first time. So here’s the link to signup … Continue reading Late to the Part 2022 Part 1
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your shuffles! As the end of the year (thankfully) approaches, we’ve come across the holiday season, including the most important holiday of all! No, not … Continue reading It’s A WRAP: The Weekly Shuffle Thread Wants to See Your Year in Review!
Hello! Here’s some new music! I don’t see anything I know that’s actually new so, here’s the list! — 1K Phew & Lecrae – No Church In A While — ABIOTIC – A Universal Plague: Mutation EP (Reissue) — Abraham … Continue reading Friday New Music 12/3
The nominees are in and the voting begins today! We had more than enough albums nominated to fill out a full bracket, so the top 64 upvote-getters from the Nominations thread have been ranked and seeded and are about to … Continue reading Favorite Holiday Album Tournament–Round of 64
Given the almost total lack of upsets so far in this tournament, at least just going off of the seeding, it’s probably not exactly accurate to apply the “Cinderella” label to anyone. If we were going to give it to … Continue reading 1990’s Hip-Hop/Rap Tournament: Round of 8
